The Rediff Election Constituency

 Dhubri: BJP vows electoral revenge for killing of candidate Malda: MP for life Berhampore : Robin Hood takes on the Revolutionary Amethi: Sonia steals the thunder as showers smother Vajpayee wave Cuttack: Vajpayee wave may drown out Congress's K C Lenka Bansgaon: Black Cat on the prowl Koliabor: APCC chief finds himself in trouble  Tripura West
: Trinamul, BJP, TUJS alliance shakes up the Left and Congress
 Aska: Supine Congress has Naveen Patnaik comfortably ahead Midnapore: Indrajit Gupta may finally meet his electoral nemesis  Calcutta South: Mamta all set to make it 4 times in a row  Banka: Voters want the return of the native  Bolpur: Trinamul's David seeks to cut down Goliath Somnath's victory margin  Ghosi: Where the Rais wash their dirty linen Rae Bareili: Voters look for development, through the Gandhi family or not  Dum Dum: It's do-or-die for the CPI-M Lakshadweep: P M Sayeed seeks record tenth win Katihar: Mentor battles protégé to garner minority votes Azamgarh: Community, not development, the issue Malda: Ghani Khan Chowdhury may meet his match, at last Akbarpur: Where behenji is the bane of Brahmins Dhenkanal: Rebel BJP candidate may end up spoiling Satpathy's party Nabarangpur: The Congress has a tough time.
 Kalahandi: A prince and a pauper fight it out.
 Sarangarh: A Congress bastion mired in backwardness
 Shimla: NDA puts up stiff fight in Congress bastion Nalanda: Undercurrent of discontent threatens Fernandes Patna: Pot-holed roads to Parliament Hamirpur: Kargil gives BJP the edge in traditional recruiting ground Raipur: Bais bids for a fourth win Dhenkanal: A pineapple instead of a lotus Rajnandgaon: Development remains a daydream in remote Rajnandgaon Koraput: Gamang fights a proxy war through wife Chhindwara: Kamal vs kamal Mahasamund: Development, statehood are the key issues in this mineral-rich region  Tura (Meghalaya) : Congress makes an issue of Sonia's foreign origins
 Kangra: Old foe takes on old foe
 Kheri: Kurmis will decide the MP here Mandi: Sukh Ram and BJP make a formidable combination Kanker: Congress makes a desperate comeback Hajipur: RJD makes Paswan slog to retain his seat Mahakaushal : Congress confident of surprising the BJP Barh: Nitish Kumar's tightrope walk Lucknow: Rural electorate plans to boycott polls Baramulla: Policemen in civvies make up the numbers in Farooq's meetings  Jehanabad: Where power flows from the barrel of a gun Dumka: Santhal Paraganas: tinged with a saffron hue Kannauj: Mulayam has it easy Hajipur: A vicious electoral battle gains momentum Hoshangabad: Patwa, an outsider who feels at home anywhere stands for elections here Baghpat: Jats vs the rest in Chaudhary Charan Singh's fief
 Pratagarh: Where the voters are no better than cattle Vijajawada: Upendra seeks a hat trick in AP's most politically conscious city Ara: Ranvir Sena man joins the fray, may muddy the pool  Allahabad: M M Joshi may drown in the Sangam of local issues and Bahuguna legacy  Coorg: Despite being Karnataka's biggest revenue earner, it is in a mess Mysore : The writing is on the wall for Wodeyar Coimbatore: All quiet on the southern front Kanpur: Tough triangular battle on Jehanabad: Of Bhumihars, bullets and the battle of the ballot Amethi: Sonia manages to rattle Sanjay Singh Udhampur: Doda voters have a bone to pick with BJP
 Alappuzha: An 'actor with attitude' vs an incorruptible Congressman
 Chamrajnagar: Coalition politics takes a bizarre detour
 Jhalawar: Vasundhara Raje likely to have a walkover
 Mumbai South-Central: Mill workers may do in Mohan Rawle Rajapur: Dandavate comes out of hibernation to take on Sena, Congress Amalapuram: Balayogi is given a run for his vote Jhabua:It's always one Bhuria or the other Jhansi:No clear favourites as local issues dominate Hazaribagh: Rustic rivals give Yashwant Sinha a run for his money Periyakulam: 'The voters will take their money, but will vote for us' Kozhikode: Muslims will decide Muraleedharan's future Rajgarh: Where gods fight Belapur: Shiv Sena leaving no stone unturned to defeat former comrade Idukki: Miasma of sex scandal surrounds P J Kurien Ernakulam: CPI-M tries a new trick Sangli: It's all in the family Leh: In devastated Drass rehabilitation not Kargil is the issue  Channagiri:J H Patel stoops, yet may not conquer  Bharuch: Congress looks in vain for a 'magic wand' Mandvi: Complacent Congress may get its comeuppance Solapur: NCP may end up digging Sushilkumar Shinde's grave  Wardha: NCP hopes to put it across to Congress Tirupati: No longer lord of all he surveys Srinagar: Bullet may just score over the ballot Renapur: Brother and brother-in-law Valsad: Poll evokes little enthusiasm Jalore: Buta Singh is on a sticky wicket Mayiladuthurai: Caste and the DMK may fell Mani Shankar Aiyar yet again Tiruchirapalli: Kumaramangalam wakes up to ground realities Bombay South Central: Mohan Rawale has a fight on his hands Tenkasi: Puthiya Tamilagam's Krishnasamy could spring a surprise Nanded: It is a fight between the Congress and BJP Nagercoil: Having the PM to canvass helps the BJP Srinagar: They do it behind masks Madurai: Kargil is no issue here Tiruchendur: Close contest of a different kind Tirunelveli: AIADMK's Pandian is the favourite in Tirunelveli